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I am currently running Elyssa as a dual boot with vista. works great. so my question is how can I get rid of vista and all the "bloatedness" that comes with it, but keep my files and Elyssa? any ideas how to accomplish that without major vista curve balls?

So you want to completely remove Vista from your HD?Fire up a LiveCD, run gparted (partition editor), delete your Vista partition (may have to unmount, forget), and resize your linux partition to occupy the left-over space.

After booting back into Mint open a terminal and run gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lstRemove the part that looks something like this:# (1) Windowstitle Windows Vistarootnoverify (hd0,0)makeactivechainloader +1

After booting back into Mint open a terminal and run gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lstRemove the part that looks something like this:# (1) Windowstitle Windows Vistarootnoverify (hd0,0)makeactivechainloader +1

Cheers and Good Luck.

Do not do this (sorry proxima, but you forgot UUID), this will most likely get you into UUID hell. First step would be to tell us the partition setup you have. Post the your fstab and the output of:

this is what comes back from the terminal after sudo fdisk -1...no idea what that means....under vista I have a c partition with vista on it, a d partition for files and other stuff, f partition for linux and several smaller partitions that pop up automatically and I think they are somehow connected to vista...no idea

nonsense wrote:this is what comes back from the terminal after sudo fdisk -1...no idea what that means....under vista I have a c partition with vista on it, a d partition for files and other stuff, f partition for linux and several smaller partitions that pop up automatically and I think they are somehow connected to vista...no idea

If I understand this right, you have all your Linux partitions on an extended partition. If I am not mistaken, you can't add space to an extended partition. If you have the patience, you should wait until someone more knowledgeable than me answers (like Fred).

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.--Dean Martin

I think it is new from Daryna, fstab uses UUID instead of /dev/xxxx, and UUID's are calculated by size, amongst other things. Changing the size of a partition, you change the UUID, rendering fstab useless and in effect don't have a root partition and you can't boot. Easily solved by removing the UUID in fstab, and use the /dev/ notation instead.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.--Dean Martin